See the Times Higher Education World’s Best Small Universities 2016 table here.
Kalind Baraya is a senior year undergraduate student in the department of mechanical engineering at IIT Guwahati
Rankings for Students
If every single student at your university were to go on an international trip together, how many planes would it take to get everyone there?
The average university in Times Higher Education’s could fill just over 55 planes with a student population of about 25,000 people.
But the 20 institutions classed as the world’s best small universities would be a lot more fuel-efficient. Most would need fewer than 10 aircrafts to seat every enrolled student.
For students looking for an international experience abroad or at home, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Hong Kong or even Qatar might be the best bet.
Times Higher Education has released its ranking of the world’s most international universities, and these countries are home to the five universities with the highest scores.
University of Geneva, both in the top five.
Students in an online chat forum have named more than 60 UK universities they feel are “underrated”, with many agreeing that the University of Bath deserve more recognition.
The University of East Anglia (UEA) was underrated, particularly for medicine and law.
The dominance of China’s universities in the BRICS & Emerging Economies rankings 2016 highlights a wider trend for international students to consider China’s top institutions alongside leading universities elsewhere in the world.
Half the universities in the top 10 are Chinese, with the prestigious Tsinghua University taking the first and second place respectively.
International students in the United States tend to concentrate in three states: New York, California and Texas.
So the results of the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors 2015 report, revealing the 25 US universities with the most international students, are not particularly surprising.
New York, California and Texas each claim three universities in the top 25, as does Pennsylvania.
So you’ve set your hopes on attending one of the most elite universities in the world?
You’ve heard of Harvard, Stanford and MIT of course.
But with a grand total of 147 US universities in the World University Rankings, there are plenty of options for a world-class education you may never have thought of.
For the fourth year running California Institute of Technology has reigned as the best university in the world.
Asian universities have collectively achieved a huge improvement in the 2015-16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings for physical sciences, released today.
More than half of Asia’s 15 universities in the top 100 for physical sciences are included for the first time this year.
These are the results for 2015. View the 2016 results
UK employers from predominantly business, IT and engineering sectors have revealed which UK universities produce the best graduates for the workplace.
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have taken the top spots in the UK ranking of the Global Employability University Survey 2015.
Asia claims a quarter of the best 100 universities in the world for engineering and technology in the 2015-16 subject ranking.
Universities in Singapore, Hong Kong and China are among the best 25 in the world for engineering degrees, directly competing with rivals in the US, UK, Sweden and the Netherlands.
For the first time, an Indian university is included in the Technical University of Darmstadt, in Germany, in 100th place.